Indirect US-Iran talks ​ended last week without any public sign of headway toward ​a lasting peace, despite a 60-day ceasefire intended to ⁠create space for diplomacy following the US and Israeli strikes that ​triggered the conflict.

“We’re either going to make a deal, or we’re ​going to finish the job. OK. And it won’t be tough to finish the job. I’d rather make a deal, because I don’t want to affect 91 ​million people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.

“We can ​knock down their bridges in one hour, we can knock out their energy supply…. ‌They ⁠don’t have any money now. We haven’t given them any money.”

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr called Trump’s threat “delusional.”

“Iranians are unfamiliar with the language of threats. So speak to the ​Iranian people with ​respect, otherwise⁠ we will respond in another language,” Zolqadr said in comments carried by state media.

Trump spoke after Khamenei’s ​weekend funeral, where, rather than looking weakened by the war that ​began ⁠with US and Israeli strikes on February 28, Iranians appeared to be defiant, united and determined to shape what comes next.

The 60-day ceasefire was intended ⁠by ​Washington to revive diplomacy on stopping Iran ​from developing a nuclear arsenal.